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By John C. Cook: I graduated from Penn State with my Ph.D. in Geophysics in 1951. I went to work at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio for 13 years. I evaluated "new" oil-finding inventions for 3 years, then invented an electrical crevasse detector for the Army. This took me to the Greenland and Antarctic cecaps. Further adventures, in oceanography, included a trip around the world to join the International Indian Ocean Expedition as a seismologist with visits to Mauritius and Seychelles. Changing jobs in 1964 to the Geotechnical Corp. in Dallas, I was a Principal Scientist for 21 years, making inventions, including "monocycle" low-frequency, ground-penetrating radar. This I developed for years, including much work in salt and coal mines in the U.S., England, Australia and Germany. Now,in 2009, I am volunteering with 2 Utah universities on the problem of global warming. I am now 91, with no fatal diseases. I have a loving wife and two grown sons. Greetings to you fellow lucky survivors!